Add to this that, without them having to spend the last few years in massive debt trying to figure out how to fund these pension plans, they might have been able to spend the time and money reinventing themselves as a common carrier capable of surviving in the internet age.
I'm pretty sure that half of Congress - ironically the half that prefers a strict interpretation of the Constitution - wants the Constitutionally-mandated postal service to go bankrupt and go away because it interferes with the profits of several other private businesses. (The vote on the bill in the House in 2006 was done by voice, so there's no official record of who voted for it.)
Err - that's the plan. Only first class mail is being stopped on Saturdays. If you want something delivered on a Saturday, you can still send it priority or express, and it will still be delivered on a Saturday. That's the second and eighth lines of the summary above.
The constant popup is annoying. I would use the mobile site, though, except when I said "yes" to the popup a few weeks back, then tried to reply to a comment, Safari crashed on my phone.
Can you let us set a user preference in our account as to whether we want the mobile site or not on mobile devices? Bonus points for letting us set it on a per-browser-string basis, so I could use the mobile site on my phone (assuming it doesn't continue to crash) but the full site on my tablet.
That works for milk, and cereal, the two things that I automatically rebuy when they run out. Maybe salt and pepper as well, though I buy those in bulk so they only run out every few years.
For everything else, I only buy as needed. And I often don't know I need them until I'm picking a recipe to prepare, which is often done while I'm out already, and running home to check is inconvenient.
Our rice cooker tells us exactly when the rice is cooked. It sings a little song. It helps that the Japanese love little useful gadgets, and they also love rice - their rice cookers are pretty awesome, and we bought an English version of a model sold in Japan.
I do my research from my recipe database, which is synced to my phone. Usually this is while having lunch out somewhere. What I don't have, though, is a perfect memory of whether we used up the smoked paprika and the white pepper, or whether the shredded cheddar cheese from two weeks ago is still edible. And no, I won't re-buy smoked paprika and white pepper when I use them up, "just in case" I make a recipe that requires them again in the next year.
If I had room to space things out, pan and zoom cameras would be awesome.
Our company has a branch in Hungary, a country in which parents are required to name their children using an approved list of girl and boy names, and one where there are relatively few last names.
The result is that there are numerous name conflicts among employees. Our company solved this by assigning a number to each one after the first, i.e. Gabor3.Hajdu@company.com.
The funny thing is, many of them use their number everywhere! I regularly see emails where people sign off like this:
With regards, Gabor3
So my solution is to simply assign each employee a new, unique name, and require them to use it for all work-related activities. Offer a bonus, say, a $10 Applebees gift card, for people who legally change their name to match. With each person assigned a five-character first name and five-character last name, there are more than 100 trillion unique name combinations. No conflicts!
So... you say Tesla doesn't make batteries, but has experience "engineering around" known battery problems.
Meanwhile, Boeing has determined that it's not the batteries that are their problem, but the bits of engineering around them. And Musk is offering their whole technology package to Boeing, not just the battery cells alone.
You won't find the f-droid app in the play store, but you can install it from...
You know, my mind automatically inserted an "ucking" into the above sentence, presuming you were at work or too polite to spell it out. Off topic, sorry, but that's all I'll every think about that app now.
I'm far more exited about OLED displays, because A) even though they are still clinging to 1080p, they pushing boundaries for display technology in other ways such as improved contrast and viewing angle, and B) the fundamental technology of OLEDs is far more exciting that the same old LED-backed LCD technology being scaled down that's done with 4k televisions.
In other words... 4k isn't geek tech enough to be that exciting.
Why do you buy from Comcast, then? I have both OTA and local channels via Dish Network, and while OTA is indeed the best, the Dish broadcast of the same channels isn't that different. (Dish channels have a ~3-4 second delay compared to OTA, so switching back and forth I can see the same frames on both in succession.)
Ten years ago, when I took public transportation to work, then took a cab from work to dinner, I would be able to use a pay phone to make a call that night if necessary.
Now, pay phones are gone, because I and everyone else have cell phones.
Of course, you could go back and point out that in 1924 I wouldn't have access to pay phone for that call either, and I would need to catch a ride home on a trolley for a nickel to check in with the nanny. But that's just as silly as the argument you're making now.
1.27 mm is exactly 50 mils, so that's not a great example.
But yes, issues do arise in part conversion, and yet the PCB layout is all still done in mils. Of course this could be fixed; if any group can make the leap, it ought to be engineers. Honestly I'd rather switch future designs to metric than have to learn (another) PCB CAD package, if I had a choice.
My wife's grandmother died today. A few years back, when she was still somewhat coherent and could still see a little, we treated her to a Christmas party where we showed her her own old slides, which she hadn't seen in decades.
We had to find and rent a slide projector, which wasn't cheap. Then, many of the slides from the 60s had horrible color damage - only red was left.
We have them all in climate-controlled storage now. At some point, I'll buy a decent slide scanner and scan them all in. Slides are awesome for dynamic range - there's no monitor that can show as good of contrast as bright white from a strong projector bulb and the black of a solid fill at the same time on the same slide - but I fear total loss for anyone still choosing to archive exclusively in that format.
Even printed circuit boards are designed in "mils" - which are one-thousands of an inch. It's not just "things like building materials", it's "things like building materials and all the associated tools and hardware, and all of their associated tools and hardware, and also cars and all of their associated liquids and meters and infrastructure, and also electronics and their associated infrastructure, and also temperature and its associated infrastructure and cultural understanding".
If you're going to label "building materials" as not really an issue, you might as well label all of those things the same. And then you have the current system as "not really an issue", which for most Americans it isn't. End of discussion.
We get Dish Network's ESPN GameDay package, which is much less than that price but does give us all of the ESPN- and ABC-filmed college football games that aren't otherwise airing in our area.
During the commercial breaks, they show just the funny ESPN college commercials. They do get a little old. Of course, since we're recording, we start with at least a 45-minute delay and don't have to watch that many of them.
At halftime they cut to ESPN radio over screens showing scores and stats of all the day's games.
I know nothing about their four-year programs, but DeVry's two-year associate degree in electrical engineering technology yields quality, skilled engineering technicians. My company struggles to fill hardware tech roles (we had one open for six months this year), but many of those positions (including at least one that reported directly to me) were filled by recent DeVry graduates. (We're growing and need a hardware tech for every 2-3 hardware engineers, plus a software tech for every 4-5 software engineers.)
So yeah... maybe the four year degrees aren't as valuable, but it's not fair to call DeVry a "scam".
1. Lower the corporate tax rate, and raise the unearned income rates in response. This fixes the problem with richer people paying an effective tax rate lower than poorer people and makes it less likely that companies would want to set up such complicated shell corps. It has the negative effect of hurting the retirement of anyone that has all of their money in non-Roth investments suddenly subject to the new higher rates.
That's a pretty common solution. I think this one also works and is more novel:
2. Require companies to pay taxes based on the nationality and/or country of residence of the majority of their executive officers and board of directors. The tax rate is based on the income earned by all subsidiaries. This means that Facebook wouldn't have to just set up shell corporations in other countries, they would have to find a board made up of non-US people, and likely move the top executives out of the country, too. And at that point, well, they aren't really a US company any more at all, and it doesn't matter if they pay US taxes on their non-US income. But really I don't think most companies would go to that effort, as that is far beyond their fiduciary duty to their American shareholders. While business is offshore-able, most people still want to live in the same country as their friends and family. I think this can be used to "fairness'" advantage in tax law.
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Add to this that, without them having to spend the last few years in massive debt trying to figure out how to fund these pension plans, they might have been able to spend the time and money reinventing themselves as a common carrier capable of surviving in the internet age.
I'm pretty sure that half of Congress - ironically the half that prefers a strict interpretation of the Constitution - wants the Constitutionally-mandated postal service to go bankrupt and go away because it interferes with the profits of several other private businesses. (The vote on the bill in the House in 2006 was done by voice, so there's no official record of who voted for it.)
Err - that's the plan. Only first class mail is being stopped on Saturdays. If you want something delivered on a Saturday, you can still send it priority or express, and it will still be delivered on a Saturday. That's the second and eighth lines of the summary above.
The constant popup is annoying. I would use the mobile site, though, except when I said "yes" to the popup a few weeks back, then tried to reply to a comment, Safari crashed on my phone.
Can you let us set a user preference in our account as to whether we want the mobile site or not on mobile devices? Bonus points for letting us set it on a per-browser-string basis, so I could use the mobile site on my phone (assuming it doesn't continue to crash) but the full site on my tablet.
Because no one has ever created something for a hobby then discovered it had a different, viable, commercial use.
Have you been to a library? They don't card you when you walk in the door, only if/when you want to leave with some of their property for free.
Even if it knew you still had a piece of broccoli in the fridge, would it know if the broccoli had started rotting?
That works for milk, and cereal, the two things that I automatically rebuy when they run out. Maybe salt and pepper as well, though I buy those in bulk so they only run out every few years.
For everything else, I only buy as needed. And I often don't know I need them until I'm picking a recipe to prepare, which is often done while I'm out already, and running home to check is inconvenient.
Someone didn't cook your bacon sufficiently. The texture of the fat should be gone, and it should be crispy to the point of melting.
Bacon is great when well prepared, but there are better cuts of pig, too.
Our rice cooker tells us exactly when the rice is cooked. It sings a little song. It helps that the Japanese love little useful gadgets, and they also love rice - their rice cookers are pretty awesome, and we bought an English version of a model sold in Japan.
I do my research from my recipe database, which is synced to my phone. Usually this is while having lunch out somewhere. What I don't have, though, is a perfect memory of whether we used up the smoked paprika and the white pepper, or whether the shredded cheddar cheese from two weeks ago is still edible. And no, I won't re-buy smoked paprika and white pepper when I use them up, "just in case" I make a recipe that requires them again in the next year.
If I had room to space things out, pan and zoom cameras would be awesome.
Our company has a branch in Hungary, a country in which parents are required to name their children using an approved list of girl and boy names, and one where there are relatively few last names.
The result is that there are numerous name conflicts among employees. Our company solved this by assigning a number to each one after the first, i.e. Gabor3.Hajdu@company.com.
The funny thing is, many of them use their number everywhere! I regularly see emails where people sign off like this:
With regards,
Gabor3
So my solution is to simply assign each employee a new, unique name, and require them to use it for all work-related activities. Offer a bonus, say, a $10 Applebees gift card, for people who legally change their name to match. With each person assigned a five-character first name and five-character last name, there are more than 100 trillion unique name combinations. No conflicts!
The best I've seen, also in Texas, is an animal friendly plate with the license "YIFFY". This was a few years ago.
So... you say Tesla doesn't make batteries, but has experience "engineering around" known battery problems.
Meanwhile, Boeing has determined that it's not the batteries that are their problem, but the bits of engineering around them. And Musk is offering their whole technology package to Boeing, not just the battery cells alone.
What's so loadful about that?
You won't find the f-droid app in the play store, but you can install it from...
You know, my mind automatically inserted an "ucking" into the above sentence, presuming you were at work or too polite to spell it out. Off topic, sorry, but that's all I'll every think about that app now.
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I'm far more exited about OLED displays, because A) even though they are still clinging to 1080p, they pushing boundaries for display technology in other ways such as improved contrast and viewing angle, and B) the fundamental technology of OLEDs is far more exciting that the same old LED-backed LCD technology being scaled down that's done with 4k televisions.
In other words... 4k isn't geek tech enough to be that exciting.
Why do you buy from Comcast, then? I have both OTA and local channels via Dish Network, and while OTA is indeed the best, the Dish broadcast of the same channels isn't that different. (Dish channels have a ~3-4 second delay compared to OTA, so switching back and forth I can see the same frames on both in succession.)
Ten years ago, when I took public transportation to work, then took a cab from work to dinner, I would be able to use a pay phone to make a call that night if necessary.
Now, pay phones are gone, because I and everyone else have cell phones.
Of course, you could go back and point out that in 1924 I wouldn't have access to pay phone for that call either, and I would need to catch a ride home on a trolley for a nickel to check in with the nanny. But that's just as silly as the argument you're making now.
The world has changed.
1.27 mm is exactly 50 mils, so that's not a great example.
But yes, issues do arise in part conversion, and yet the PCB layout is all still done in mils. Of course this could be fixed; if any group can make the leap, it ought to be engineers. Honestly I'd rather switch future designs to metric than have to learn (another) PCB CAD package, if I had a choice.
My wife's grandmother died today. A few years back, when she was still somewhat coherent and could still see a little, we treated her to a Christmas party where we showed her her own old slides, which she hadn't seen in decades.
We had to find and rent a slide projector, which wasn't cheap. Then, many of the slides from the 60s had horrible color damage - only red was left.
We have them all in climate-controlled storage now. At some point, I'll buy a decent slide scanner and scan them all in. Slides are awesome for dynamic range - there's no monitor that can show as good of contrast as bright white from a strong projector bulb and the black of a solid fill at the same time on the same slide - but I fear total loss for anyone still choosing to archive exclusively in that format.
Even printed circuit boards are designed in "mils" - which are one-thousands of an inch. It's not just "things like building materials", it's "things like building materials and all the associated tools and hardware, and all of their associated tools and hardware, and also cars and all of their associated liquids and meters and infrastructure, and also electronics and their associated infrastructure, and also temperature and its associated infrastructure and cultural understanding".
If you're going to label "building materials" as not really an issue, you might as well label all of those things the same. And then you have the current system as "not really an issue", which for most Americans it isn't. End of discussion.
Certain parts of the Bible are heading towards 2000 years, and they are still called Revelations.
We get Dish Network's ESPN GameDay package, which is much less than that price but does give us all of the ESPN- and ABC-filmed college football games that aren't otherwise airing in our area.
During the commercial breaks, they show just the funny ESPN college commercials. They do get a little old. Of course, since we're recording, we start with at least a 45-minute delay and don't have to watch that many of them.
At halftime they cut to ESPN radio over screens showing scores and stats of all the day's games.
I know nothing about their four-year programs, but DeVry's two-year associate degree in electrical engineering technology yields quality, skilled engineering technicians. My company struggles to fill hardware tech roles (we had one open for six months this year), but many of those positions (including at least one that reported directly to me) were filled by recent DeVry graduates. (We're growing and need a hardware tech for every 2-3 hardware engineers, plus a software tech for every 4-5 software engineers.)
So yeah... maybe the four year degrees aren't as valuable, but it's not fair to call DeVry a "scam".
1. Lower the corporate tax rate, and raise the unearned income rates in response. This fixes the problem with richer people paying an effective tax rate lower than poorer people and makes it less likely that companies would want to set up such complicated shell corps. It has the negative effect of hurting the retirement of anyone that has all of their money in non-Roth investments suddenly subject to the new higher rates.
That's a pretty common solution. I think this one also works and is more novel:
2. Require companies to pay taxes based on the nationality and/or country of residence of the majority of their executive officers and board of directors. The tax rate is based on the income earned by all subsidiaries. This means that Facebook wouldn't have to just set up shell corporations in other countries, they would have to find a board made up of non-US people, and likely move the top executives out of the country, too. And at that point, well, they aren't really a US company any more at all, and it doesn't matter if they pay US taxes on their non-US income. But really I don't think most companies would go to that effort, as that is far beyond their fiduciary duty to their American shareholders. While business is offshore-able, most people still want to live in the same country as their friends and family. I think this can be used to "fairness'" advantage in tax law.